skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've quit after several years of burn out at one of the FAANGs.
I haven't touched any programming since then. I have travelled a bit, read books, played games, dated. And I don't want to go back to work at all.
Thanks to having most of assets in tech stocks my portfolio is worth more than it was when I quit.
Was it a good decision? No, it was the best.
Staying at job would not bring me any value, only more burn out.
Because MSTR has two legs to the trade: BTC returns + NAV premium/discount.

It is a better trade if the premium continues to rally. Otherwise it’s a worse trade.
I almost setup xLights this year. Glad I didn’t since that’s a whole rabbit hole I don’t have time for!
My Christmas Eve tradition with my wife for the last 14 years has been to eat as much Chinese food as we possibly can at our favorite Chinese place. Then we drive around town looking at Christmas lights while listening to classic Christmas music. Neither of us are religious, but we were both raised Christian.

I came into this thread thinking that I don't really have any great Christmas memories. My family was poor growing up, my parents shouldn't have been together for as long as they tried to make it work, and my father had a lot of issues with drugs and alcohol. But now that I think about it, these Christmas Eve memories with my wife are my favorite.
All the things you’re saying Redhat sells are a result of being in business for 30 years and investing billions. They were not a “platform company” for the vast majority of their existence and would not have survived long enough to transition to platforms if they launched in 2023. That’s the point.

I mean, half the reason they sold to IBM is because even Redhat didn’t think they could withstand the assault from Amazon as a standalone entity…
Actually, yeah XD
I gave up on trying to visualize 4 dimensions. I don't know if it's possible. Instead I just try to think of 4D as more of ideas and less geometry: rules, consequences, capabilities, etc. We can do the same thing in 3 dimensions by saying things like "two objects can't exist at the same place and at the same time" or "parallel lines meet at infinity" or "parallel lines never meet" or something. We usually don't do that for 3 dimensions because we have visualizations and intuitions which we can use instead of breaking everything down formally all the time.
another personal anecdote about the end of the era of fun.

this past summer, disneyland, me a 35 year old adult male.

not trying to get into the parks, trying to get to a character breakfast at the grand california hotel with the rest of the family.

we were staying at the disneyland hotel.

the shortest path was through downtown disney. we had to go through security; i had a kavu sling bag, with nothing in it but a cheap bamboo flute.

the elaborate version of this story is a standup bit, but the fact is security wouldn’t let me through without surrendering my flute. we were late to breakfast as we had to walk around security to get to the other hotel, since there was no way i was giving up my silly little toy flute to a rent a cop, defending disney’s ban on musical instruments in the parks.

my first hand experience is that i couldn’t concealed carry a bamboo flute through downtown disney. fun is dead.
Gemini 2.0 Flash when prompted with: "Will it be considered as offensive by some people when using words like Dad and Mum"

It's unlikely that using "Dad" and "Mum" would be considered offensive by most people. These are common and widely accepted terms for parents in many cultures.
However, there might be some situations where these terms could be perceived differently:

* Cultural differences: While "Dad" and "Mum" are common in many English-speaking countries, other cultures may have different terms or customs. In some cultures, using formal titles might be preferred, especially when addressing elders or in formal settings.

* Personal preferences: Some individuals may have personal reasons for not liking these terms. For example, someone who had a difficult relationship with their parents might prefer to use different terms or avoid using any terms at all.

* Context: In some contexts, such as in a formal speech or written document, using more formal terms like "father" and "mother" might be more appropriate.

Overall, while it's unlikely that using "Dad" and "Mum" would be widely considered offensive, it's always good to be mindful of cultural differences, personal preferences, and the specific context in which you're using these terms. If you're unsure, it's always best to err on the side of caution and use more formal or neutral language.
Intrinsics, when available, are a convenient tool. But even then, I think assembly these days has very limited applications and most programmers don't need to know any assembly to be effective.

Preemptive disclaimer: all my jobs were the exception to the rule and I sadly had to work with various assembly languages on a daily basis. Still not a fan.
I wonder if this could, in a manner of speaking, be a "rational" choice that indicates a breakdown in society. That is to say, perhaps some of what we are seeing is that younger people have concluded that the only way to live a decent life in America is to become rich and becoming rich mostly comes down to luck. If gambling is the only way to get a decent life then they may as well gamble. If they lose, then they were already going to have a bad life anyways.
You just read about dozens of people being killed by an on-board fire and you’re going to say there’s no danger from casually having a fire on the end of a stick? Even if this one wasn’t started by a cigarette, they certainly can cause fires.
Many things look like gambling on short time frames. Investing requires taking a long view that averages out the short-term noise like meme stocks.

It does require patience, which is admittedly harder to come by when you’re young.
The one thing that really stands out about Christmas growing up was how amazing my dad was at giving gifts that sparked my curiosity about the world. Instead of focusing on toys and games, he often chose books (scientific) and kits (RadioShack). While today you can easily find gifts that combine fun and learning, growing up in the '70s and '80s, it was usually one or the other. That’s not to say I didn’t enjoy a good toy or game—they could also stimulate imagination and creativity—but it was the books and kits that truly shaped who I would become.

I also had an aunt who loved giving magazine subscriptions. Thanks to her, I had long-running subscriptions to Discover, Scientific American, Omni, and later BYTE. And, of course, the most important one of all: Dungeon!
https://ip.bieringer.net/cgn-test.html
Right now Jj basically ignores submodules, they do want to fix it but haven’t yet. So you just use git commands in a colocated repo for now.

Large file stuff is also a “want to do something better but no progress yet” kind of thing.
The Amiga was my second computer too. And I have spend all my money on the M2 Modula 2 compiler.

Then I could do computer school homework in M2 on my Amiga and just had to translate it to Turbo Pascal in school to submit it :-)
Dual Cancer Therapy Eradicates Tumors Without Harsh Side Effects
In certain conditions gcc will actually generate instructions that use this same bitvector described: https://godbolt.org/z/6Gfjv6PGd
(notice the funny 130159 value in there)

The only thing I did was to adjust the range of characters so that the bitvector fits 64 bits. Sadly, I do not this it would work for the author's bigger range.
I tried to find something fast and native. Saying "native" I mean something which doesn't require a browser.

Uses a browser which doesn't meet the requirements they set.
All three of those properties do apply to a Nissan Leaf. There are third party batteries and you can replace individual cells. But the lack of integrated cooling that enables this means the battery doesn't last. Better to get a car where the battery lasts the life of the vehicle.

> defective parts usually break in boring ways

I think this is far more true on an EV than an ICE. Batteries generally fail very predictably and are generally still usable even when degraded.
Give yourself a daily list of goals to accomplish. It should be something that you know is achievable.
> Pareto victim right here

I'm pretty sure deskr was making a joke.
Why, wasn’t The Martian an example of hard sci-fi, a story that conforms strongly to the known laws of physics? Not necessarily probability, economics or politics, but hard sci-fi is written to be plausible.
Yeah, the coperedictor.

The current financial system is straight up unusable. Cashing out on the future of money is cool.
The median book about medicine is over 100 years old, written in a language you don't speak, and filled to the brim with quackery. Worse than useless. Maybe you don't realize that bookstores and libraries only carry a minuscule fraction of all published works? You will get better information from reddit than from a book written before the discovery of penicillin.

I'll get you started with one of the great works from the 1600s:

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/49513/pg49513-images.ht...
That I'm a good software developer and there's hope for me being successful because of it.
> Another example of how KWh is the wrong unit for energy storage

KWh (kilowatt hours) is a measure of energy, so using it to describe energy storage capacity is correct. Using KW for this is wrong.
Nice. Why not use a full-text search like self-hosted Typesense?
It's called cookie stuffing, and it constitutes wire fraud.
> We already have precident on that topic via that short story about the reverse isekai airplane carrier to ancient Rome that was written on Reddit in early 2010s.

... do you mean precedent of a scifi premise from social media being turned into a movie? or the precedent of a piece of media using a piss-tank's levels as a means of communication?
Good advice generally, terrible advice if you have ADHD.
It is a by-product of a research project, its main connection is "these things were useful to the author while working on spectral images".
It’s a famous “should be easy” use case. I think this is wrong only because no one does it.
Is immutability's benefits not the "integrity" of a system? This seems pedantic.
See also Edsger Wybe Dijkstra's 'On the cruelty of really teaching computing science' http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036... (1988)

...and compare it to say, Paul Graham's 'the other road ahead' https://www.paulgraham.com/road.html (2001)
What explains most other democracies not doing it?

Is Sweden an oligarchy, too? Or France? Etc etc
Chuck's light show is absolutely amazing! If you want to see more displays from him, check out: https://merryoncherry.org/
>Plain and simple C99+ port?

C89 bindings https://github.com/MoAlyousef/cfltk
Seriously, what is a good alternative to Chrome's password management? For lazy end users.
> and hopefully converges onto the same working state no matter the previous state of the machines its running on

Isn't that exactly the point of NixOS?
I work on these docs – thank you!
Many modern vehicles experience galvanic corrosion at dissimilar metal junction points at accelerated rates in the presence of salt.
I checked the post, but it's from someone who's far more comfortable with Mathematica than I am, so I hope you won't mind my asking about the maths.

First, the T vs. t in T * sin(t) doesn't mean anything, right? Second, the ' in the title T * sin(t)' doesn't belong, right?

Then I think that this is graphing essentially (t * sin(t), t * cos(t), t + something), which is a cone if the something is constant, which I believe it is—and that certainly matches the graph. And the rest is about choosing an aesthetically pleasing step size and accomplishing the lovely twinkling and colors, right?
It’s a book. Explaining a lookup table is way easier for a reader than explaining this code snippet.
Thank you for the quiet work, appreciated
i know a handful of people with empty houses in san francisco.

they’re older, bought multiple properties when it was affordable to buy multiple properties.

i’m drowning in rent, but their houses sit empty as they’re concerned renting the houses would make them more used and the values would go down.

i feel you. we’re screwed, but i’m glad people can profit off misery, especially when an extra 30k can be made according to the purest definition of a war of attrition.
For the vast majority of users Lite does the job just fine.
A good real life example of how to actually live the principle of not letting metrics become targets while still having them.
Well luckily we don't have to go on vibes and there's data that shows modern cars last longer than older ones, on average.
That is incorrect because the us wide nature is what gives it the firepower to ensure no other employers emerge via agressive price competition anywhere they do emerge until the new competitor fails. Walmart local town would have staying profitable at that location as a constraint on competition. Also breaking them up is the correct antitrust mechanism not because of what walmart is doing but because the corruptibility of humanity makes regulatory action almost always fail in the long run. The government can't be trusted to regulate them to a better position for more than a very finite amoubt of time so it is better to not grow the government regulatory arm and instead break the company up to solve the issue.
> You would not reject a computer-controlled dialysis machine as "just a simulation" if you had kidney failure would you?

Except that's not a simulation, that's the actual process of dialysis in action (which we fully understand, contrary to consciousness). And coincidentally, a dialysis machine _does not_ look like a kidney, not even remotely, and any homomorphism one can point to, is such only through a great deal of layers of abstraction. I would totally reject a simulation of a kidney.

We are talking about a computer simulation like a neural network. We detect topological relationships in neurons and we are led to believe or entertain the possibility that all there is to it is such topological description, hence any substrate will do. This is completely arbitrary and leads to all sort of phantasies such as "qualities emerge from quantities" and "a simulation of a brain behaves like a brain". A computer simulation of a kidney won't produce urine just like a simulation of a brain won't produce whatever the brain produces, if anything.

Now, to build on your dialysis machine analogy, if we were to understand how consciousness work, and if we were to understand what relationships it holds with the brain and the body, then I submit that anything artificial we will produce will look like biology.
I recall a parasite that attaches itself to the tongues of fish and takes its own share of whatever the fish consumes.

There’s organisational equivalents of this.
Dutch army to equip soldiers with personal drone-protection kits
How does this even work?

Is hugging face hosting just the weights or some custom code?

If it's just weights then I don't see how it could error out, it's just math. Do these chinese models have extra code checking the output for anti-totalitarian content? Can it be turned off?
I think some boomers would prefer to invest in a company which holds btc, or fund, and pay a premium not to touch it directly.

Premium goes to techies and lawyers and stuff.
> There was this idea that humans arrived and killed everything off very quickly—what's called 'Pleistocene overkill,'" said Daniel Odess, an archaeologist at White Sands National Park in New Mexico. But new discoveries suggest that "humans were existing alongside these animals for at least 10,000 years, without making them go extinct.

I don't think there is a contradiction here. Indeed we could have them get extinct, it just took a long time by human standards, ~10 millennia. I don't know how many mastodons or giant sloths/armadillos there was in Americas before humans made landfall here. But I'd guess about 10 million of each. If they took about ten years to reach sexual maturity, that gives us about 1000 generations of megafauna in this time window. To get their population down from 10 million to just one in this time, each generation had to be smaller than the predecessor, but on average could still retain log(10^-7)^-1000 ~= 98.4% of its size. Even if stone age tech enabled humans to overhunt them consistently only by a slight amount, ~1.6% each generation, they still would end extinct in 10,000 years. So it was not "without making them go extinct". It was "while making them go extinct.".
One meal won't kill them.
1password if you are willing to pay for it.
If you’re not, Bitwarden is just as good and it’s free / open source.
I thought about cashing out, but cash out into what? Every form of currency has its own risk.
I set up Bitwarden for my dad who keeps forgetting his passwords. It seems to work well on his PC and Android phone.
Parser generators handle a lot of edge cases for you and are battle tested.

Unless I had a relatively simple grammar or had very strict performance requirements (like in the case of Ruby), I would not trust a hand rolled parser on a CFG by someone who isn’t dedicated to the craft. (PEGs are simpler so maybe).

I’ve written recursive descent parsers by hand and they look very simple until you have to deal with ambiguous cases.
Full text search would be redundant as arXiv.org already supports it. For semantic search, Typesense has limited collection of embedding models. [^1]

[1]: https://huggingface.co/typesense/models/tree/main
Brave seems to work well with its privacy shield and a button to turn scripts off as-needed.

People only focus on Firefox as an alternative. Am I missing something?
The article says that a risk analysis was done for the system and the risk was found to be “extremely improbable,” meaning between 1 in 100 million to 1 in a billion flight hours.

This flight may have been extremely unlucky, or the risk analysis may have been wrong. This is why the behavior of the Egyptian authorities is so frustrating; the purpose of the accident investigation is to see if there are problems that should be addressed.
Plenty of iron in the earth is in the form of iron oxide, which is already oxidized and won’t oxidize further upon exposure to the atmosphere.
Even though macOS won’t let you replace the actual binaries that ship with the OS, you can still replace the binaries that get resolved when they’re called via brew/nix/macports etc.

I again disagree with your assertions that you need to replace the OS contents. You just need to be able to reflow them to other ones. That’s the macOS way, the flatpak way etc..

I think the issue is that you are claiming that you MUST be able to do these things on Linux, and I’d push back and say no you do not.

And your comparison of SteamOS to a console or in car entertainment is flat out incorrect. Have you never booted it into desktop mode? For 90% of users, what are you expecting they need to do in that mode that it’s not “general purpose” enough to do?

Yes, it’s not impossible. It’s been done multiple times , successfully as well.
> I feel like this is some overly romanticized picture coming from Americans or rich northern europeans who think people in southern Europe are lazy and chilling all day instead of working their butts off

I understand what you mean, but didn't mean to come at it from that angle necessarily. Less work isn't the only way to have a different work/life balance.

I was thinking more about things to do outside of work that are more part of the culture, things like tapas and spending time at cafes and town squares, i.e. people typically socializing more outside of work.

For example, I assume someone who enjoys the third place feel of an iconic UK pub would have an easier time fending off work from home cabin fever than someone who lives in a suburb bereft of such places. I wondered if, statistically, people in some cultures had an easier time working from home due to reasons like this.
The Snowman, 1982, with original introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjMNtEKHURU
Uh, seemingly, yeah. 10+11 = 21. No bounds checking on addition or assignment.

https://onlinegdb.com/3KhhaReLV
There definitely were ads for spectrums in Greece back then [1] but if I were to guess they were coming from local distributors rather than Sinclair.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/greece/s/N8djTsI1wC
The ASRock Rack ROMED8-2T has seven PCIe x16 slots. They're too close together to directly put seven 4090s on the board, but you'd just need some riser cables to mount the cards on a frame.
Nobody knows.

While depletion of mining rewards is very far into the future, it will very soon be virtually nothing, the only reward will be trading fees, and I'm not bullish on that.

Satoshi should have just made a linear minting algo. All early reward was a mistake. We'll see why inflation is necessary. In 80 years will the youngins want a coin that they have no way of minting except begging their grampas for it?
There's nothing to stop you from writing out a grammar in some form that is intelligible to a verification tool and then implementing the grammar by hand. I almost always write out the grammar anyway because that's the design—without it I'm flying blind. The cost of the generator isn't writing out the grammar, it's in using the runtime code it generates, which is optional even if you want to use it for verification.
I'm using Brave and have no idea why you got downvoted. People are talking like Chrome and FF are the only two things on Earth.
I have considered writing an E-Mail client, so I’ve done a little research on the ecosystem.

JMAP seems like exactly the protocol I’d want to use to avoid much of the IMAP pain, but there’s almost no ecosystem.

If I wrote an E-Mail client for JMAP, I’d basically make it for Fastmail and for Fastmail only - and I couldn’t even do so without paying Fastmail. That’s untenable, I’d be 100x better off targeting the GMail API.

An IMO perfect way to jumpstart adoption would be an IMAP-to-JMAP proxy, which I don’t think currently exists (maybe due to basic deficiencies in IMAP, I’m not sure). It would allow people waiting to develop and use modern clients relatively easily.

Currently the best way to get non first party JMAP infrastructure seems to be to host Stalwart (https://stalw.art/) and do some trickery to forward your E-Mails there, which hasn’t been worth the effort to me so far.